Windows 10: Windows 10 Home - What is the maximum RAM it will address?

I wasn't sure on the limit since windows 10 is new I would think they would have done away with it, I have tried to use 64 bit software but I always get the won't work on my system message when it should, I'm not very good when it comes to software but can tell you all about hardware in my sleep... lol, oh well, thank you for responding

 

if you bought a retail copy of your operating system it may have a dist for both 32 bit and 64 bit, I know my win7 ultimate did and to solce my memory on my 64 bit machine, I wiped the system of the 32 bit operating system and installed the 64 bit software, then ran the free win10 update using the 64bit tool and it all went in smooth, so check your OS software if you have a 64 bit machine you can go to start/control panel/system and security/ system and it will give you all the pertanants on your machine, I took a guess on mine and I was right, if you have a 64 bit processor then you have a x64 machine I believe as long as you have that you can use 64 bit software, and if you have that and are so lucky as to have a 64 bit copy of your operating system as well as the 32 bit then I would suggest you wipe the 32 and install the 64, but you might get a better solution from these other guys who lok to know more about the problem, I just took a guess and it worked for me... good luck to you

 

Press Win+R to see the run box. Type winver and execute it. You can also see it from System Info or System Properties in Control Panel. Search that in the search box. See if you have 32-bit or 64-bit Windows (probably the first). You either format and install 64-bit to use all your RAM, or wait for a patch to be made for Windows 10. In Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8 there is a patch that enables PAE in the kernel and allows a 32-bit Windows to use all the RAM. Beware however that there might be some incompatibilities when doing that. If your installation is new and you don't have much applications installed and data, don't think about it, the best option it to format and install 64-bit version. I may be wrong, but I think the serial is the same for both the 32-bit Home and 64-bit Home, so you shouldn't have any problem. The only issues you may have with a 64-bit version have to do with very old devices that lack a 64-bit driver (have only 32-bit) and old 32-bit applications that may not be fully compatible with 64-bit Windows. Mosts 32-bit applications are compatible with 64-bit Windows but there are a few exceptions. Of course forget very very old 16-bit applications and games (Windows 95 era). They won't work in 64-bit.

 

Yes, the original poster did, but poster #5 posed a different problem, he had problems going over 2.98GB and all the responses since then have been about that.

 

For poster #5, I would see the BIOS for the graphics setting. I would make sure the shared RAM from the system is maximum 256MB to leave more RAM available for the system. I would even make it 128MB. This would raise the usuable RAM just over 3GB which is the practical limit of a 32-bit system anyway.